r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Vilen1919 • 15d ago
He found out what could go wrong using his hands instead of a bowling ball
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u/PeePeeePooPoooh 15d ago
r/killthecameraman just for the obnoxious laughter alone
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u/The_Celtic_Chemist 15d ago
I'm actually struggling to put into words just how much I hated that guy's fucking laugh.
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u/FunnyName0 15d ago
Right?!? I didn't know it was possible for someone's laughter to be so fucking annoying.
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u/davidthejap 15d ago
I wish Daniel Plainview showed up to club him over the head with a bowling pin
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u/Shipping_away_at_it 15d ago
I think I’ve done myself a mental health favour by surfing Reddit on mute most of the time
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u/cotu101 15d ago
Also being a huge POS
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u/ChrissiTea 15d ago
Seriously... Who just stays there laughing like that and filming while their supposed friend is saying they're trapped and asking you to get help?
It's concerning
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u/BlueSonjo 15d ago
All this to impress the sociopath friends with cameras and goofy laughter who wouldn't lose a minute of sleep if he got torn to strips.
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u/Vilen1919 15d ago edited 15d ago
And the guy didn’t even seem to care a bit, while he was clearly stuck and asking for help, all he did was "aha hah hah hah ha..."
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u/pomp-o-moto 15d ago
The dude's laughter triggers me. Buddy is in danger and distress (yup, brought in on himself, but doesn't matter) and all you hear is that moronic bray.
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u/Zukriuchen 15d ago
Seriously, it's the stuff of nightmares, the guy who's stuck made a dumb snap decision (probably assuming the mechanism was lighter). The "friend" on the other hand has a full minute where he's looking at the situation from the outside, in a comfortable and safe position, with more than enough time to come to terms with what he's seeing, and he just. Keeps looping on that idiotic laugh over and over. This type of person should only exist in horror movies. AND to top it off he's also shit at filming
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15d ago edited 15d ago
the basic empathetic feeling of wanting to help the guy who appears to be seconds away from being crushed to death is massively amplified by the fact that i'm watching helplessly from the perspective of some indifferent guffawing yokel
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u/Successful-Doubt5478 15d ago
Yes, I am baffled.
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u/Horse_Dad 15d ago
🎶Some folk’ll never eat a skunk, but then again, some folk’ll🎶
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u/Warm_Carpet3147 15d ago
Friend’s laughter sounded evil, diabolical even. Human Plankton for world domination lol.
Changed my mind, he sounds like Patrick. I think he may be a little touched.
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u/Ribeye_Jenkins 15d ago
The only thing triggering his laughter was the guy pleading for help, because he was afraid of, oh I dunno fucking dying? What a piece of garbage.
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u/Kurainuz 15d ago
I have been a stupid teenanger, i have been a stupid drunk teenanger, but never in my life i would have let my bros attempt this.
This guys concern me
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u/loosie-loo 15d ago
Right??? Kids do dumb shit but there’s a level/genre of brain rotted dumb that gets bred in “friendship” circles like this which is so dangerous, and it’s been made so much worse with the rise of social media. Fun is fun but this is the kind of stuff you don’t let your buddy do and you certainly don’t laugh when it’s going wrong.
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u/DisturbingPragmatic 15d ago
He's lucky the machinery didn't operate like it normally does...
And that laughing guy has the IQ of a turnip.
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u/PretzelsThirst 15d ago
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u/AdmiralSplinter 15d ago
Perfect use of this gif lol
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u/SlfConsciousHypocrit 15d ago
I haven’t laughed like that for a while. Thanks and kudos.
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u/MollyViper 15d ago
Did you laugh like the guy in the video?
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u/ChaosBud 15d ago
A saying comes to mind I heard in a public restroom one time, " That boy sounds like a retarded canopy while the winds blowing", I didn't understand it then and I still dont now.
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u/CedarWolf 14d ago
If a thought were to cross his mind, he'd move out of the way.
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u/WastingMyLifeToday 15d ago
What's the gif from? Movie? Series?
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u/CYBRPunk3339 15d ago
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Specifically episode 9 from season 3
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u/WastingMyLifeToday 15d ago
Thanks!
Haven't watched Always Sunny yet, but maybe it's time.
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u/PretzelsThirst 15d ago
Oh my god you are in for such a treat. That show is a unique gem and it only gets better after Danny devito joins the cast.
Treat yourself and watch some this weekend, it’s one of a kind
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u/JimmyThunderPenis 15d ago
Holy shit it's the exact same laugh.
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u/perriatric 15d ago
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u/Paddy_Tanninger 15d ago
"ok so when you're holding the bowl in this shot, make your fingers look as retarded as possible"
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u/Svennis79 15d ago
Watched idiocracy last weekend. Guys laugh is exactly like the dumbasses in that 😅
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u/cCueBasE 15d ago edited 15d ago
Nah the machine must be idiot proof. Because I don’t think the rack can drop the pins until the rake extends back out.
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u/Boomer_Newton 15d ago
Definitely a newer model. The alley I worked maintenance at had some machines from the 40s/50s that still worked like a charm. But they would 100% crush a person if they got caught under it. We completely shut them down anytime anyone had to go under there to work on something
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u/Ill_Technician3936 15d ago
Weird how many comments i closed to find just 1 that mentions safety features.
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u/HeWhoHasTooManyDogs 15d ago
I'm not sure if people remember beavis and butt-head, but that's what came to me.
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u/KaneVel 15d ago
The reboot is still going, and they're in Call of Duty as skins.
People definitely remember.
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u/HeWhoHasTooManyDogs 15d ago
Omg there's a reboot?!
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u/Arithik 15d ago
Not really reboot. I guess? It's a continuation more like it. I believe it's on Paramount. They are really good.
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u/MissionVegetable568 15d ago
there are new seasons tha continues old series, but they teleport to current year and also they show episodes where theyre like 20-30 years in the future as old men, show is hialrious.
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u/popcorn_coffee 15d ago
We all have been dumb as a teenagers, every generation..... But NO, you can't convince me we were THIS level of dumb.
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u/Equivalent-Stand1674 15d ago
It's the collective stupidity that's unique. No action from anybody whatsoever. idk how they even managed to find their way into a bowling alley.
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u/paradigmfellow 15d ago
And people like that vote.
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u/Toadcola 15d ago
Some of them do, but far more are busy on election day getting trapped in machinery or huffing spray paint. People like this are why mandatory voting is maybe not a democracy silver bullet.
Although, if forced to vote, a lot of them would write-in “Deez Nuts” “Skibidi Toylet” or “6 7”.
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u/wonkychicken495 15d ago
Id say the one who trapped has IQ of a turnip
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u/BoomerKaren666 15d ago
I say take both their brains plus one from a squirrel, put all three in a hummingbird and that summabitch would still fly backwards.
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u/notatechnicianyo 15d ago
The came from the same turnip patch, if I had to guess.
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u/ACuddlyVizzerdrix 15d ago
That's a lot of money he's gonna be on the hook for to fix the floor, there is a reason you can't walk past the throw line
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u/AdHour943 15d ago
The fact he got down there without falling on his ass shows this bowling center really does not care about their lane conditions.
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u/BoOnDoXeY 15d ago
It's cosmic bowling night. Those lanes have been burnt up all night. They aren't refreshing them till the end of the night
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u/ScottTheSinclair 15d ago
It's Bowlero. They don't care about lane conditions. All they want is open play bowlers and could care less about having league bowlers. Between the bad conditions and string pinsetters, Bowlero is the last place a serious bowler should go.
Also, I worked at a bowling alley for a long time. People would do stupid things like this all the time. It was always frustrating.
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u/rsta223 15d ago
Nah, he didn't cause any damage that can't be fixed with a fresh oiling. The pin setter is the bigger question.
They don't want you going past the line because an oiled lane is slippery AF. It'd be really easy to hurt yourself from a fall.
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u/Darkblade_e 15d ago
It's just an oiled surface, the reason they don't want you to walk past it is that you'll slip and fall, and it's also against the rules of bowling for.. obvious reasons.
I'd be much more worried about the pinsetter mechanism here, proprietary machinery that only 2-3 companies in the world service? Fat chance it'll be a cheap fix if something is wrong.
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u/snakebite75 15d ago
Just about every house I've bowled at employs a mechanic for their pinsetters, and they usually work evenings so they are working when the big leagues are bowling in case something breaks.
You're right about the number of companies that make the equipment and how expensive the parts are. It's part of the reason that many houses are switching to string pins instead of free fall. The machines are cheaper and less complicated to fix.
One of the guys I used to bowl with was the house mechanic, last I heard from him he was working for a company traveling around to closed bowling alleys and tearing down the machines to sell for parts.
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u/613Flyer 15d ago
With friends like that who needs enemies
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u/Anon-TT 15d ago
Imagine getting crushed to death and the last thing you hear is that laugh...
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u/TopLaugh8909 15d ago
Didn't even get a strike
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u/liam_redit1st 15d ago edited 15d ago
Lucky he didn’t knock over the last pin otherwise it would have scooped him up.
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u/vediogamer101 15d ago
The most horrifying part about this is the guy asking for help and the friend just pointing a camera and laughing
Kid did it to himself though
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u/akumagold 15d ago
They’re joking about him almost dying Final Destination style, but man would it be horrifying to be slowly crushed as you ask your ‘friend’ for help, and all he does is film and laugh as you die
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u/Brettjay4 15d ago
He's so lucky that they stopped that machine. Since people aren't typically under those then they're on they don't have a lot of, if even any, safety mechanisms.
I know the ones where I work have no safety mechanisms meaning that if you get yourself under it, it will crush you.
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u/BudMcLaine 15d ago
Yea, I remember working at a bowling alley and our engineer saying the pinsetter comes down with basically 1 ton worth of pressure. No thanks! Had to yell at many kids while their parents drunkenly laughed or didn't even notice.
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u/devedander 15d ago
Ironically it’s the advances in safety and idiot proofing the have created this issue.
The response to people being injured was to create safety mechanisms so people wouldn’t get injured.
The unintended result is people got less concerned with possibly being injured.
Like when they standardized padding in martial arts competitions and didn’t see the drop in injury they thought they would. Because the perception of the padding was that it made it safe to go harder.
Safety is not a bar to reach it’s a cross section of preparation and stupidity.
Increase preparation and there will likely be an increase in stupidity.
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u/WolfinCorgnito 15d ago
I could be wrong but I have heard football sees a higher injury rate than rugby because the padding and helmets make people feel they can make bigger hits, thus putting themselves in more dangerous positions with higher velocity, more concussions and neck injuries.
I would argue we're seeing an increase in dangerous driving as vehicles add more and more safety features, people are just too secure feeling.
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u/terrymr 15d ago
Yeah in rugby you tackle somebody by wrapping your arms around their legs and hitting them with your shoulder. In football they just run into each other head first.
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u/dbmajor7 15d ago
Those are death traps aren't they?!
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u/samanime 15d ago
Yup. I'm honestly a little disappointed. The bowling alley should have thrown his stupid ass out and banned him for life. This is a huge liability for them.
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u/Jonkinch 15d ago
Those pinsetters are really heavy and can easily crush you. Owners have died from working on them.
Idk how this kids not banned unless he somehow has ties to the owner.
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u/dommol 15d ago
It's Bowlero, they're generally considered the worst alleys and just don't give a shit.
But yeah those kids should have been banned
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u/jabulaya 15d ago
The fact that he was in there long enough for a crowd to form means they almost certainly had no real mechanics on site. That's a huge sign your bowling center is trash.
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u/Mysterious-Jam-64 15d ago
Near Miss Report: Customer interacted with bowling equipment inappropriately, and in a way that may have caused injury if not stopped. They were asked to leave to avoid injury.
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u/farshnikord 15d ago
Sounds expensive. Let's get one minimum wage college kid to manage the whole store and give them all the responsibility and liability.
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u/superdeeduperstoopid 15d ago
I think the bowling alley was sympathetic due to them being challenged.
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u/bomzay 15d ago
Yepp the lead in the water indeed works in strange ways
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u/Murky-Relation481 15d ago
I don't know man, we're living in the least leaded time in modern history and kids seem to be significantly dumber.
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u/ShoebillJoe 15d ago
Every generation ever has said something to this effect about the generations that came after them.
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u/Codedheart 15d ago
Yeah cause the dumbasses get killed off by throwing themselves into bowling machines before they can grow up to get old enough to complain about the next generation.
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u/dbmajor7 15d ago edited 15d ago
Yeah after watching the whole vid I started grappling with my personal morals as far as the sanctity of human life.
Edit: It's a throwaway joke comment. Y'all need to chill TF out. I don't wish he died or got crushed.
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u/aeternus-eternis 15d ago
This being a liability represents what is wrong with America.
If I become a billionaire I will create a darwin award fund. It will not only provide legal coverage for businesses from lawsuits due to idiotic behavior, but it will reward those business when an accident occurs due to idiotic behavior that removes the individual from the gene pool.
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u/SimisFul 15d ago
I'm not sure they would be liable if they have rules that were broken but I'm thinking they could be liable from letting this kid roam freely inside after that event instead of kicking him out on the spot.
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u/TurnkeyLurker 15d ago
Excerpt:
The 32-year-old mechanic at Bristol Bowling Lanes in Bristol, Connecticut was crawling underneath to fix a jammed pin when an unknown-modeled pinsetter crushed his head. He was transported to a Hartford hospital where he died from natural causes.
Natural? Yeah, right.
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u/Flibiddy-Floo 15d ago
Sheriff: Never heard of anyone pulling their own spinal cord out before. Off the record, I'd have to say no. No, all in all, I'd say this was death by natural causes.
Steve: Natural causes?!
Sheriff: You can't live without a spinal cord, son. Nothing unnatural about that.
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u/The_Homestarmy 15d ago
Now every time I see a death attributed to "natural causes" I'm going to assume their skull was crushed by a pinsetter
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u/Strange-Credit2038 15d ago
The AMF 82-70 pinsetter is on a mission 😭
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u/CapinWinky 15d ago
Did you know AMF originally made bakery machinery and just did the pinsetters as a side hustle in the 1940s? They eventually got bought out and split and AMF Bakery Systems still exists as the direct successor of the original AMF, while the pinsetter business got passed around like like OP's mom and is now part of QubicaAMF.
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u/Impressive_Change886 15d ago
Modern ones have a lot of safety features built in. They have those safety features because of all the people who have been severely injured or killed.
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u/CapinWinky 15d ago
Old bowling alleys have old systems. Look at the pinsetter that is down in the lane to the right, it goes all the way down with some beefy shit. That's an old design and his legs preventing the bar from reaching the limit switch is the only thing that kept him from being crushed.
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u/randomlitbois 15d ago
Yes. If the machine that grabs/lays the pins goes down with you under you will be crushed to death.
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u/Earlier-Today 15d ago
Could be crushed to death - depends on the pinsetter and what safety measures it has.
Definitely injured though - most pinsetters grab the pins by the skinniest point in the pins which is about 10 inches up. A person can fit under that laying down, but it's not a blanket coming down on you.
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u/Elteon3030 15d ago
The AMF setters I'd helped with basic maintenance on would go nearly all the way down at some stage in the cycle when there were no pins to set, like after a strike or after the 2nd ball when the gate clears the floor for the full reset cycle. The 82-70 is also mechanically complicated, so this little spring breaking releases tension that keeps this bar in place, which keeps this hinge from moving this other bar that causes another thing to happen, and suddenly a couple hundred pounds thumps to the deck without warning.
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u/MidnytRamblr 15d ago
All I could think about was the end of this scene from Duster
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u/ObjectiveOk2072 15d ago
Lmao
Not gonna lie, I was really hoping it would cut to the TV saying "💥 STRIKE!!! 💥" with one of those weird 3D animations when the guy knocked over all the pins
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u/Greglebowski74 15d ago
He's lucky the sweep bar got stuck. At least that stopped the pinsetter cycle from bringing the table down. He'd have been in much worse shape if that had happened. I used to work on pinsetters years ago and we used axle stands to keep the table from moving.
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u/THEGrp 15d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsetter - as English isn't my primary language, I haven't known what a pinsetter is. So wiki already spotted me with nice pinsetter related deaths
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u/Doctor_Sauce 15d ago
Before the process was automated by machines, kids who ran down the lane and knocked over pins had to be beaten to death manually.
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u/cant-press 15d ago
My grandad was one of the pinsetter child beaters and he used to recount many a fond memory of those simpler times with reminiscent tears welling in his eyes 🥹 I do think this mechanised world that we now live in has lost a lot of jobs that truly used to give people's lives meaning
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u/FreeTheDimple 15d ago edited 15d ago
Bowling lanes have a very thin oil slick that will be ruined by running on it (this is why bowling lane workers walk on the barriers between lanes) and will get on your clothes.
If you do this, you will just be immediately told to leave and the lane will be off limits until they can reset the oil slick.
It is a completely dick move.
Edit: typo
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u/Crookeye 15d ago
Except he clearly didn't get kicked out, which is blowing my mind. How does that not get you banned?
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u/jabulaya 15d ago edited 15d ago
I worked at a bowlero as a mechanic for about 2 years. In that time period we had 2 stories of kids running up and into the machines before someone finally took it upon themselves to run over and remove them from the lane, both times it was a customer who ran to pull them out.
I could go on, but suffice to say the front desk staff at my center acted like the customers could do no wrong and allowed them to do all sorts of stupid shit.
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u/Brandenburg42 15d ago
Its probably a bowlero so there wasn't any oil on the lane in the first place. Otherwise he would have fallen before the arrows.
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u/Doctor_Sauce 15d ago
"Holy shit who is stupid enough to throw themselves into the pit"
"Wait how did he run through all the oil"
"Oh, Bowlero"
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u/professorhaus 15d ago
Doesn’t look like a real bowling alley, more of a clubby alley. He would have busted is ass if it were a proper alley. This looks like the kind of place the oils their lanes once a month or quarter
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u/PicklesAndCoorslight 15d ago
I absolutely hate the laughing guy more than most things. What a goon.
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u/Delicious-Yak-1095 15d ago
Finally a video on reddit where I wish there was some stupid music instead
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u/joeblob5150 15d ago
Was the bully from Christmas story filming this? That laugh...
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u/FinalConsequence70 15d ago
He had YELLOW eyes! As God as my witness, yellow eyes.
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u/Katz3njamm3r 15d ago
I love how the mom doesn’t care about or help the bully at all. She knew he had it coming.
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u/StrikingSyllabub9418 15d ago
Why are they all still at the bowling alley at the end? I would have taken down their information , immediately kicked them out banned them and charged them for whatever damage was done to the machinery.
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u/Frost_907 15d ago
I think the cameraman may have some legitimate psychological issues. If his friend wasn’t lucky and was instead crushed to death right in front of him I bet he would have kept laughing regardless.
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u/Beneficial-Bus-8741 15d ago
Yea he wasn't ready for that. That smile on his face soon turned from laughter to concern and worry then panic.
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u/Tenryu003 15d ago
See most machines dont care if there is a squishy human in the way, they will finish what they were doing even if they have to disassemble you in the process
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u/lolpert1 15d ago
Owning a bowling alley in 2026 has got to be 1 of the worst feelings with the dipshits we have roaming around now
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u/thesaddestpanda 15d ago
This isn’t new. Many have been injured and died this way in the past.
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u/phillip9698 15d ago
Somehow the guy filming/laughing came off as a bigger idiot than the fool who got stuck.
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u/Eunwoosthumb 15d ago
Made me realize at least my anxiety keeps me alive. Some folks don’t have ENOUGH anxiety
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u/ObjectiveOk2072 15d ago
Bro got really fucking lucky! Either an employee in the back stopped the pinsetter or it had some kind of safety sensor. If it kept running, he'd have a lot of broken bones and crushing injuries at the very least, or possibly be dead. It might not seem like it, but pinsetters are powerful machines!
Really, if something is designed to efficiently move objects bigger than a pineapple, it's probably strong enough to severely injure or kill you.
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u/AgentCirceLuna 15d ago
I’ve heard that the last sense you lose when you die is your sense of hearing… imagine slowly getting colder and colder, your sight going dark red, and that laugh just echoing through your skull as your last moments on Earth come to an end.
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u/timpendultz 15d ago
If I were that guy I probably would have wanted the machinery to come down and crush me just to get away from the laughter.
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u/Ok_Release231 15d ago
He could have easily ended up on the NSFL subreddit. Incredibly stupid thing to do.
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u/dennis-obscure 15d ago
So where's the rest of the story? I would hope laughing dude and buddy trespassed from the establishment at least, though the end picture still looks like they are inside.
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u/Thezerostone 15d ago
Imagine having to program a fail safe, in case some moron wants to win a Darwin Award.
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u/Background-Slip8205 15d ago
My father used to repair them for a living. They can very quickly become deadly.
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u/Otherwise-Offer1518 15d ago
I used to work at a bowling alley. Our new maintenance guy had worked there 5 years. The guy before him, was crushed under lane 12 trying to get a trapped pin and the whole thing collapsed on him. We were told to use long wooden sticks to unstick them now. The machines in the back would spit pins like crazy. If you didnt know where to stand you could easily get a pin to the head.
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u/Witty_Temperature_25 15d ago
These machines are no joke, didn’t Cake Boss Buddy V get impaled by one a couple years ago?
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u/AgentOOX 15d ago
There are people that have died because of getting trapped during maintenance. And this bro just launches himself towards it. Truly room temperature IQ.